Bolton

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This page is about the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. For other places and people named Bolton, see Bolton (disambiguation)

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Location within the British Isles
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Arms of Bolton, the motto is Latin for "Overcome your hinderance"

Bolton is a town in the Greater Manchester urban area in England, and traditionally part of Lancashire. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.

Bolton has a leading independent day school, Bolton School, which was established in around 1516.

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Sport

Bolton has a Premiership football club called Bolton Wanderers F.C. managed by Sam Allardyce.

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Demographics

  • 89% White
  • 6.1% Indian
  • 2.5% Pakistani
  • 2.4% other (with no one group exceeding 1%)

(Office for National Statistics, 2001 Census of Population)

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Arts

Bolton has an acclaimed theatre called The Octagon. In the town hall of Bolton there is also a large theatre and conference center called The Albert Halls http://www.alberthalls-bolton.co.uk/, this venue is over 100 years old.

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Education

Bolton has its own modern university, the University of Bolton.
Bolton has its own Children's Service, formed September 1st 2005).
The Bolton Teaching and Learning Centreserves schools as a central point for online materials.

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Media

Local radio is provided by Tower FM, a station which broadcasts across Bolton and Bury.

The town's local newspaper is the Bolton Evening News, although the Manchester Evening News is also widely available.

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Twin Towns

Bolton is twinned with Le Mans in France and Paderborn in Germany

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Other Facts

At the last count, in around 2000, the town is home to over 280,000 people. It is the second largest town in the U.K, coming just after Croydon, Greater London.

According to a survey of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Boltonians are the friendliest people in Britain.

On February 13, 2003, Bolton was granted Fairtrade Town status.

Bolton has over 1,000 Voluntary and Community Groups working in the area. Contacts for some of these groups can be found at www.boltongroupsonline.org.uk. The Bolton District Council For Voluntary Service is online at www.boltoncvs.org.uk and people seeking voluntary work can apply at www.boltonvolunteering.org.uk.

Some famous people from Bolton:

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